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Sears Philosophy 

as taught in 

“ The Books Without an If 99 


How to Conquer Fear 

by 

F. W. Sears 

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AUTHOR OF 

“ How to Attract Success, ” “ How to Give Treatments,” “ Every¬ 
day Experiences,” “Concentration—Its Mentology and Psychol¬ 
ogy,” “Was Jesus God or Man?” “The Law of Cause and 
Effect,” “The Resurrection of the Body,” “The Risen Self,” 
“ Our Judgment Days,” “ What Creates Environment ? ” “What 
is God?” “Sears Psychology Lessons,” Vols. I and II, “How 
We Create Ourselves,” “The Unpardonable Sin,” “The Secret 
of Healing,” “ The Law of Abundance,” “ Death! Then What,” 

etc., etc. 



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Contents 

PAGE 


Preface. 7 

Chapter 1. 17 


The only thing there is to fear. How fear 
affects all forms of life from the lowest to the 
highest. How consciousness of fear has been 
gradually developed. Why fear is natural to 
mankind. How man gives power to the man¬ 
ifestations of Energy instead of to the Energy 
itself. Why the teachings of science, philosophy 
and religion have made for fear. What is meant 
by “ignorant and undeveloped life.” 

Chapter II. 22 

How man conquered his fear for objects with¬ 
out decreasing his fear consciousness. Making 
finer use of physical laws through increased men¬ 
tal power. How “Watch your step,” “Watch 
your food,” “Look out for germs,” “Be careful 
or you’ll get hurt,” increases fear consciousness. 

Why the science, philosophy, and religion man 
has heretofore been taught tends to make a cow¬ 
ard of him mentally and soulfully. Who the 
only person is that man needs to fear. We 
always find that for which we look. Snake story. 

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CONTENTS 


Chapter III. 

World’s science, philosophy and religion 
founded on wrong basis. Why man continues to 
live in the consciousness of fear. Personal God 
and Red Devil. How to get to “heaven” or 
“ hell.” Who wants to go to either place? Why 
the “Garden of Eden” was a “Paradise.” How 
man “became wise as the gods” and what it 
brought him. What Billy Sunday’s campaign 
of fear preaching did for New York City. How 
to get back into the “Garden of Eden” and its 
“Paradise.” 

Chapter IV. 

New York City ministers afraid to preach 
what they believe. In fear of losing their pul¬ 
pits. How can a Nation be moral when the 
teachers of its religion are so immoral they dare 
not preach their convictions? How man has 
interpreted the Bible to create and continue 
the fear consciousness. Henry Ford’s attitude 
towards five-day shut-down on account of fuel 
shortage. What enables man to turn failure 
into success? 

Chapter V. 

One door closes only for a larger and better 
one to open. Fear is excess mental baggage. 
Why pay the excess charges? Business man 
who feared competition. How “eating of the 
tree of the knowledge of good and evil” and 
becoming “wise as the gods” blinds man to the 
greater truths. The attitude one should take 





CONTENTS 


towards all “competition.” How man can rise 
above the effects of competition. Experience of 
a “Sears Philosophy” student. 

Chapter VI. 

Society’s conventionalties. Who need them 
and why they exist. Morality founded on policy 
rather than upon principle. Reputation or char¬ 
acter! Which? 

Chapter VII. 

What is the remedy for all these fear condi¬ 
tions? “Sears Philosophy” does not either 
destroy law nor the conditions produced by its 
ignorant and unconscious violation. Teaches 
how to develop a consciousness which enables 
man to rise above the destructive effects. The 
real cure. Why the masses fail to become great. 
How man can create a consciousness of harmony. 
How to train the human mind. 

Chapter VIII. 

Why man’s first use of Energy is always de¬ 
structive. Why “I’ll try” produces more fail¬ 
ures than successes. Training cells of body to 
obey instructions of human mind. Personal 
experience of Author with typewriting machine. 
Experience of young man who worked ten min¬ 
utes a day. Why the simple making of an 
affirmation does not usually bring results. How 
to create a consciousness which will produce 
results. 





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CONTENTS 


Chapter IX. 

“Times and seasons.” How “privileged 
classes” are created. Teacher is an aid but 
never a necessity. One affirmation is like one 
match in a dark room. How to U6e finer methods 
and rise above the Law of Force, like sap in the 
springtime rises above effects of Law of Gravi¬ 
tation. How to turn a demon into a god; trans¬ 
mute poverty into wealth; disease into health, 
and failure into success. Summary: First, 
second, and third steps to take in conquering fear. 


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Preface 


Energy is universal. 

Energy is monistic in power but dualis - 
tic in manifestation. 

All science, all philosophy and all relig¬ 
ion start from and are founded upon the 
same fundamental basis, i.e., the mani¬ 
festation of Energy and they are all there¬ 
fore dualistic. 

Their differences lie solely in the inter¬ 
pretation of this fundamental in its 
relationship to life. 

Science attempts to explain the mani¬ 
festation ' of Energy from the purely 
physical and mental viewpoints. 

Religion devotes itself to interpreting 
it from the soul and spiritual side, ac- 
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PREFACE 


counting for all phenomena as being of 
supernatural origin. 

Philosophy speculates and does not 
know and in order to be on the safe side 
goes “ fifty-fifty ” on each. 

Sears Philosophy is based solely on the 
Energy which lies bach of all manifestation 
rather than upon the manifestation itself 
and is therefore truly monistic . 

And therein lies its first basic differ¬ 
ence to all science, all philosophy and 
all religion which the world knows to¬ 
day. 

Sears Philosophy is a scientific, philo¬ 
sophical and religious teaching which is 
the only purely monistic teaching before 
the world to-day. 

Just as the development of man’s in¬ 
tellect brought with it an ability to 
make finer use of the physical laws than 


PREFACE 


9 


was possible before, so does Sears Phil¬ 
osophy teach how to make a still greater 
and finer use of these same physical laws 
through the development of yet finer 
faculties than the physical and mental. 

All this is accomplished not by de¬ 
stroying nor annihilating any of the 
physical laws nor their manifestations, 
but by rising above their effects just as 
the sap in the spring-time rises above the 
effects of the Law of Gravitation without 
destroying that law. 

Sears Philosophy teaches that every¬ 
thing, without any exception, is the re¬ 
sult of natural and Universal Law; that 
there is no such thing as accident, chance, 
luck in the scheme of life. 

That it is man’s business here on earth 
to learn these Universal Laws and apply 
them to the living out of his daily life 


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PREFACE 


so that he may eliminate these effects 
of his ignorant use of the Universal Laws 
which he has called accident, chance, 
luck, and consciously, intelligently and 
on purpose set the causes in motion which 
will bring him the results he desires. 

This book is one of several written by 
the Author and which teach the applica¬ 
tion of these Universal Laws to Energy. 

Sears Philosophy should not be con¬ 
fused with Christian Science, Mental 
Science, New Thought, etc., because some 
of the methods used are similar. 

The methods the white man uses in 
breathing are exactly like those of the 
black man but that does not make the 
white man black nor the black man 
white. 

The difference in anything is never 
simply in the methods but in the basic 


PREFACE 


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principles underlying methods and in 
the consciousness back of their applica¬ 
tion. 

The Author has no criticisms to make 
of the organizations mentioned nor of 
any science, philosophy or religion, nor 
of the methods of any of them. 

They are all good and useful in the 
universal plan or they would cease to 
exist. 

In this connection the Author would 
call especial attention to the fact that 
the language man uses to-day has been 
built up for the purpose of teaching 
and describing a science, a philosophy, 
and a religion in which the word “ lim¬ 
ited ” (the manifestations of Energy) 
symbolizes its fundamental basis. 

It is therefore difficult to find words 
in such a language which will adequately 


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PREFACE 


convey to the mind of the student the 
teachings and description of a science, a 
philosophy, and a religion, like that of 
the Sears Philosophy, in which the word 
“ unlimited ” (the Energy back of all 
manifestation) stands as its fundamental 
basis. 

The human mind being limited by the 
vehicle through which it manifests finds 
it difficult to conceive of anything “ un¬ 
limited ” or without some limitations. 

It therefore becomes necessary for 
the student to open up his human mind 
and permit his soul and spiritual con¬ 
sciousness to give him the biggest inter¬ 
pretation for each word that he can pos¬ 
sibly conceive and even then he will only 
begin to understand what an “ unlim¬ 
ited ” foundation for his science, his 
philosophy, and his religion really means. 


PREFACE 


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Not until the student begins to unfold 
this greater, this unlimited consciousness, 
will he begin to understand his own great 
place and power in the Universal plan 
and so begin to use this power consciously, 
intelligently and constructively. 

Sears Philosophy is not a personal 
possession owned exclusively by the 
Author and to be doled out “ at so much 
per.” 

It is no more his personal property 
because it bears his name than is this 
paper the personal property of a “ Mr. 
White ” because it is called by that name. 

The Sears Philosophy is too big to be 
limited by any one or any number of per¬ 
sonalities. 

It belongs to every soul in just the 
degree and to whatever extent such soul 
may lay hold of and claim it. 


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PREFACE 


The Author does not claim that Sears 
Philosophy is better than the science, 
philosophy and religion the world knows 
to-day, neither does he claim that it 
is worse. His only claim is that it is 
different . 

Use it as you would your arm, your 
brain, or anything else you might wish 
to develop and it will pay you dividends 
in courage, strength, health, wealth, joy, 
happiness, love, peace, harmony, suc¬ 
cess, which will far outdistance your 
wildest dreams. 

Simply read this book and then lay it 
aside and forget it or fail to use its lessons 
and it will be of no more value to you 
than your arm would be did you carry 
it around in a sling and never use it. 

The Author therefore sends this book 
out into the world knowing that those 


PREFACE 


15 


who really want it will find it , and that 
should it fall into the hands of any who 
do not want it there is nothing in the 
world which compels such to keep it. 

The Author. 



“How to Conquer Fear” 

By F. W. Sears 

CHAPTER I 

In a world where there is nothing to 
fear but fear, fear has become a habit 
with all life. 

From the precious gold and the spark¬ 
ling diamond which hide themselves 
deeply within old Mother Earth’s bosom 
for fear man will discover them and dis¬ 
turb their peace and quietness, to the 
most powerful men of the business and 
financial world and the Kings and rulers 
of great nations who fear the human death 
which will rob them of their earthly 
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HOW TO CONQUER FEAR 


power, fear of some kind and in some 
degree is a dominating factor. 

The lowest form of animal life will 
run, hide, or fight according to its degree 
of fear. 

And man, the highest developed and 
most intelligent form of animal life, will 
also run, hide or fight according to the 
degree of his fear. 

Every material substance, animate or 
inanimate, has stamped upon its cell 
consciousness the dreaded image of fear 
in some form. 

Every atom of man’s body, all of which 
have evolved through the mineral, the 
vegetable, the animal, and into the 
kingdom of man, is stamped with this 
fear consciousness in some degree. 

It is no wonder then that it is natural 
for man to fear some one or some thing. 


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Why has this fear become so deeply 
imbedded in man’s consciousness and 
become such a dominating part of him? 

It is because man has developed a dual- 
istic thought world or consciousness in¬ 
stead of a monistic one. 

It is because man has mistaken, and 
still continues to mistake, the two mani¬ 
festations of the one great universal 
Energy (Positive and Negative, or “good ” 
and “evil” as he calls them) for the 
Energy itself. 

It is because man has eaten, and still 
continues to eat, of the “tree of the 
knowledge of good and evil,” instead of 
eating only of the “tree of understanding 
whose fruit is that of ‘all is good’ ” as 
he did in the beginning. 

It is on this basis of the duality in 
manifestation , rather than upon the one- 


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HOW TO CONQUER FEAR 


ness of the universal Energy back of all 
manifestation, that man has founded his 
science, his philosophy and his religion. 

The foundation having been built on 
sand, that is,—duality of power, God and 
Devil, good and evil—it is no wonder 
the structure reared thereon has always 
been weak, wobbly, unsatisfying and 
impotent in time of need. 

Man’s science has dealt only with the 
manifestations —the material things cre¬ 
ated; with something the physical senses 
could discern—while the Energy back of 
all these things created still remains 
an unknown quantity to it. 

Man’s philosophy has speculated upon 
and about this Energy but has always 
been too afraid to boldly declare itself. 
It does not know. 

Man’s religion, through its creed and 


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dogma, has attempted to define, limit 
and encompass this Energy through 
creating a personality of some kind such 
as the personal God and the personal 
Saviour Jesus which the Christian world 
has built for itself. 

As neither science, philosophy nor re¬ 
ligion has ever grown big enough to even 
begin to understand this universal Energy, 
they have all done what ignorant and 
undeveloped life everywhere always does 
under similar conditions, feared it. 

In referring to “ ignorant ” life, it is 
not the intellectual ignorance which is 
meant but rather the soul ignorance; 
those who are ignorant of the application 
of the Universal Law of Harmony. 


CHAPTER II 


Fear has been engrafted on and in¬ 
stilled in man since the beginning of the 
human race. 

Primitive man feared the elements, 
the wind, the rain, the thunder, the light¬ 
ning, the darkness, wild animals, etc. 

As man evolved he gradually developed 
his mental and intellectual faculties and 
through the finer use he made of the 
physical laws by these new faculties he 
was enabled to subdue and overcome the 
enemies of his primitive days. 

Through the continued development 
of his mentality and the finer use he 
made by it of the physical laws he was 
able to build houses to protect him from 
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the winds, rain, storms, wild animals; 
clothing to cover and protect his body, 
and lights with which to dispel the dark¬ 
ness and turn night into day. 

The development of these faculties and 
the mastering of the objects of his primi¬ 
tive fear did not change his fear conscious¬ 
ness any but only changed the object of 
his fear, such change being made by the 
same methods through which his fear was 
originally created. 

His fear originally naving been based 
solely on the manifestations of Energy, 
such as wind, rain, thunder, lightning, 
darkness, wild animals, etc., his sal¬ 
vation from the objects of his fear was 
also based solely on the manifestations 
of Energy such as houses to protect him, 
clothing to cover him, light to enable 
him to see in the darkness, etc. 


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HOW TO CONQUER FEAR 


As the result of the finer use man made 
of the physical laws by his mentality, 
the only thing changed was the object of 
man’s fear; the fear consciousness itself ’, 
the thought habit of fear, remained un¬ 
changed. 

The truth of this ise vident wherever 
we go. 

The Churches preach and designate the 
objects which man should fear and those 
of which he should not be afraid. 

The newspapers, editorially, teach their 
readers the same things; the objects they 
should fear and those they should not 
fear. 

The subway guards tell us to “ Watch 
our step; ” the bulletin boards tell us to 
“ Watch our food; ” the manufacturers 
of the country, in the page advertisements 
they have recently been inserting in the 


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daily papers, tell us to watch everything 
or we may get hurt; the scientists tell 
us to watch for germs, that our drinking 
water is full of little live animals which 
will “ get us unless we watch out.” 

When we look at the words of caution 
which confront us on every side one would 
almost be inclined to believe that “fear ” 
had been adopted as a National motto 
and placed high up in the heavens where 
all could see and worship it. 

All our science, our philosophy and our 
religion everywhere have seemed to de¬ 
light in seeing which could teach man to 
fear the most and make of him the great¬ 
est coward. 

It is true they have taught him to 
change the object of his fear but they have 
always taken good care that he lost 
none of his fear consciousness. 


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It is strange that man with all of his 
mental development and the time and 
money he has spent in perfecting himself 
physically and mentally should have 
been so blinded in his soul and spiritual 
states of consciousness as he has continued 
to be for all of these centuries that he 
cannot see the truth of how he has con¬ 
tinued to develop, cultivate and grow 
his fear consciousness and will continue 
to do this as long as he only changes the 
object of his fear . 

The man Jesus said: “Be not afraid 
of them that kill the body. Fear him 
which after he hath killed hast power to 
cast into hell.” 

In other words, the only person or 
thing man has need to fear is himself for 
he is the only one who can cast him into 
hell. 


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Fear fear and then refuse to fear fear. 

As long as man lives in the conscious¬ 
ness of its being necessary to conquer 
the object of his fear, just so long will he 
continue to have new objects to fear, 
for as fast as he conquers one others 
take its place in constantly increasing 
numbers. 

To-day science works twenty-four hours 
each day in devising ways and means to 
master an ever increasing number of 
germs and other menaces to human life 
which are new to man, and of which 
he has been totally oblivious in all the 
ages past and gone, but the more that 
are mastered the more are there to be 
found. 

We always find that for which we look, 
especially when we fear it, as the follow¬ 
ing incident shows: 


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HOW TO CONQUER FEAR 


On one occasion I was going across a 
barren field in the country with a friend 
when he asked whether there were any 
snakes around. I had never seen any 
in the many times I had crossed that 
field and told him so, when all of a sud¬ 
den he let out a yell and made a big 
jump, and in looking in the direction 
towards which he pointed (he was too 
scared to speak) I saw a big rattle-snake 
that had evidently crawled there for 
the special benefit of my friend, for I had 
never seen one before and never saw 
another one in the hundreds of times I 
have gone over that field both before 
and after this incident. 


CHAPTER III 

In the scientific world we find one class 
of inventors vying with each other in 
the manufacture of engines of destruction 
while others are at work devising new 
methods with which to counteract their 
effects. 

In the philosophical world philosophers 
are philosophizing and in the religious 
world the religionists are exhorting and 
Billy Sundayizing but all to no avail. 

Fear still runs rampant throughout the 
world simply because the world’s science, 
its philosophy and its religion are founded 
on the wrong basis—dualism instead of 
monism—the manifestation or material¬ 
ized effects of Energy instead of upon the 
Energy itself. 


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HOW TO CONQUER FEAR 


As long as man continues to live in his 
old dualistic consciousness, that is “ to 
eat of the tree of the knowledge of good 
and evil ” in which state of consciousness 
he sees only the dualistic manifestation of 
Energy and so shuts himself away from 
the “ all is good ” consciousness wherein he 
sees back of the manifestation and relates 
with the Energy itself; as long as he con¬ 
tinues to support, advocate and believe in 
a science, a philosophy and a religion 
which is based on the dual manifestation 
of Energy, just so long will he continue to 
cultivate and grow a consciousness of 
fear and thus continue to relate with the 
manifestations or things which make for 
fear including a personal God and Devil. 

For there is a personal God who con¬ 
ducts a symphony concert up above for 
all those who want it. 


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And there is a Red Devil who runs the 
fiery furnace down below for all those who 
need it, and who has no fear of ever run¬ 
ning short of fuel or being closed down 
by the Fuel Commissioner. 

Any person can obtain a through ticket 
at cut rate prices to either place any time 
he wants to go. 

All he has to do is to apply to any 
religionist he may meet who will ticket 
him to heaven or hell on the fast express 
according to whether he agrees or dis¬ 
agrees with the said religionist. 

But who wants to go to either the 
orthodox heaven or hell when there are 
so many other really pleasant places in 
which to live or visit? 

When man first lived in the Garden of 
Eden it was a Paradise to him because 
he only ate of the “ tree of under- 


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HOW TO CONQUER FEAR 


standing which bore the fruit of 4 all is 
good.’ ” 

Then one day he 44 ate of the tree of 
the knowledge of good and evil ” and 
44 became wise as gods.” 

What was the result of his becoming 
44 wise as gods”? 

As long as man had 44 understanding ” 
his Garden of Eden remained a Paradise 
but the moment he 44 became wise as 
gods ” he lost his Garden of Eden, his 
44 wisdom ” drove him away from his 
Paradise and out into the world of 
misery, sorrow, and lack of all kinds, and 
there he has remained most of the time 
ever since. 

Which do you prefer? Understanding 
with its Garden of Eden and its Paradise, 
or to 44 become wise as gods ” and lose 
both the Garden of Eden and its Para- 


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dise by continuing to live in the con¬ 
sciousness of evil, sorrow, misery, fear, 
and lack? 

Each soul can make its own choice, 
and each soul has made its own choice, 
and will continue to make its own choice 
each day, hour, minute and second of 
time all down the ages yet to come. 

Last Spring New York City had three 
months of Billy Sunday’s fear preaching 
and fear producing consciousness, and 
what has been the result? 

The most intense hot wave last Summer 
with ice at high prices, and the coldest 
weather this Winter with coal difficult 
to obtain at any price, that New York 
City has ever experienced. 

What has Billy Sunday got to do with 
the weather, you ask? 

Nothing personally, but it is the con- 


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sciousness of fear which Billy Sunday 
preaches and which is instilled into the 
cell consciousness of man which relates 
mankind with and causes him to be 
affected by the inharmonies of the weath¬ 
er and the sufferings he entails from ex¬ 
cessive heat or cold spells. 

No one questions Billy Sunday’s mo¬ 
tives nor the seeming necessity of preach¬ 
ing fear but when one passes from the 
“ wise ” state of consciousness to that of 
“ understanding,” he sees the greater 
truth which is to live in and develop the 
consciousness of that courage which will 
take him back into his Garden of Eden 
and its Paradise instead of continuing to 
develop the fear consciousness which 
drove him away from it originally and 
keeps him from returning to it. 


CHAPTER IV 

The mental and soul courage to turn 
its fear into faith and then into knowing 
is something which the world needs to 
develop. 

Some time ago one of our great daily 
papers sent out letters to the ministers 
of the City asking whether they were 
able to preach their own convictions 
without fear of being called to account 
for it. They promised to publish the 
replies but hold secret the identity of 
any one who might wish it. 

Letters were printed from six ministers 
who claimed freedom to preach accord¬ 
ing to their own convictions and then the 
inquiry was suddenly dropped. 

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HOW TO CONQUER FEAR 


The hundreds of replies from those who 
were afraid to preach what they really 
believed were never published. Why? 

How can a Nation or a people be moral 
when the preachers of its religion are so 
immoral they are afraid to preach their 
own convictions but are compelled to 
preach that which they neither believe 
nor practice or else lose their jobs? 

My human sympathy goes out to the 
preacher who has been trained for the 
ministry and is incapable of earning a 
living in any other manner and who 
thinks he has to sacrifice his self-respect 
and morality in order to keep himself and 
family from starving. 

Fear is his devil and it will keep him 
in the toils as long as he continues to 
worship it. 

The bible has been a handy book 


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which man has interpreted so as to inspire 
fear for the authority he has exercised 
to make others his slaves. 

For centuries man has used it, and the 
fear inspired by his interpretation of it, 
as a lash with which to correct the pre¬ 
vailing evils he has created with his fear 
consciousness. 

But when man learns to interpret it 
with the deeper consciousness which his 
growing “ understanding ” gives to him, 
fear is banished from his consciousness 
and a strength and courage never before 
known takes its place. 

But the preachers are not the only 
ones who are in the toils of the fear 
devil. 

The shut down of all the manufactur¬ 
ing establishments here in the East for 
the five fuelless days, and the closing of 


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HOW TO CONQUER FEAR 


all lines of business for the ten fuelless 
Mondays are the result of fear. 

The damage such shut-down caused in 
the life of each person will depend on 
how deeply the inharmonies of the fear 
consciousness have sunk in. 

Whether we agree with the President 
and Fuel Commissioner or not as to the 
wisdom of their action, the attitude taken 
by Henry Ford, according to the news¬ 
paper reports, will cause him to suffer 
less loss than would have been the case 
had he resented and resisted the order in 
his consciousness, his thought world. 

When we are filled with a fear con¬ 
sciousness we are magnetized by such 
thoughts and attract to us the very 
things we fear. But once the habit of 
analysis is adopted and the conscious¬ 
ness of “ understanding ” has begun to 


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develop, the fear consciousness begins to 
leave us. 

What enables the man who is down and 
out to get up again and take his place in 
the world of affairs? 

Courage.^ 

What enables the woman who has lost 
her all to again gather up the tangled 
threads of life and regain her place and 
standing in society? 

Courage. 

What enables hearts which have been 
broken with their loads of sorrow, misery, 
pain and suffering to gather the scattered 
fragments and face the dawn of a new day 
with a smile? 

Courage. 

What stays the would-be suicide’s 
hand and nerves him to face the difficult 
problems of life which confront him and 


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HOW TO CONQUER FEAR 


which are even more to be dreaded than 
death itself? 

Courage. 

What enables our boys to “ go over 
the top ” and charge the enemy trenches 
in the face of a murderous rain of shot 
and shell in which it seems impossible 
for anything to live? 

Courage. 

The moral courage which is instilled 
in their consciousness by the thought that 
they are not only fighting for their coun¬ 
try, their home, and their loved ones but 
also for the freedom of all mankind. 

This consciousness exhilarates and lifts 
them into currents where there is neither 
physical nor mental fear and “ over the 
top ” they go. 

“ Morale ” is what the world calls it, 
and the soldier like the civilian creates 


SEARS PHILOSOPHY 


41 


it for himself in his own consciousness by 
the thoughts he thinks. 

In our every-day life and in the prob¬ 
lems we meet there we can always dig 
up the good and “ go over the top ” of 
any obstruction, no matter how insur¬ 
mountable it may seem, and capture the 
enemy fear has brought to us. 


CHAPTER V 


We should learn to look upon every 
fear, every disappointment, as only a 
new opportunity given us to master our 
ignorant and destructive creations of 
the past. 

We should always know that when one 
door closes against us that there is another 
one, larger and better than the one just 
closed, which is ready and waiting to 
open for us will we only turn the key of 
courage instead of the key of fear in its 
lock. 

We should always remember that fear 
is but another name for excess mental 
baggage. 

Why pay the extra charges on it which 

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carrying it along with us on our journey 
through life entails? 

A man who was conducting a business 
which gave him a profit of from $150,000 
to $250,000 a year came to me several 
years ago. In the course of the inter¬ 
view he stated that he watched his com¬ 
petitors closely and hammered them 
everlastingly for he did not intend to 
permit them to get any business what¬ 
ever that he could possibly take away 
from them. 

I told him that would he take the time 
and energy he used in going after his 
competitors and turn it all into the up¬ 
building of his own business, forgetting 
that such a thing as a “ competitor ” 
existed, that he would build up a busi¬ 
ness greater, better, more pleasant and 
profitable by far than the one he had 


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already created. But that did he con¬ 
tinue giving his “ competitors ” the at¬ 
tention he had been giving to them, that 
it would not be very many years before 
he too would be out of business. 

He had “ eaten of the tree of the knowl¬ 
edge of good and evil ” and had “ become 
wise like the gods 99 and did not believe 
what I said and so continued to fear his 
competitors and also continued his work 
of driving them out of business, and in 
less than five years after the interview he 
was in the hands of a receiver. 

When I announced that our Sunday 
Lectures would be discontinued for four 
weeks during the holiday season some 
of my friends asked was I not afraid 
our audience would leave us and get 
to going somewhere else during the in¬ 
terval? 


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43 


I replied that I would be glad to have 
them go elsewhere for did they find some¬ 
thing that suited them better than my 
lectures then that was the place for them 
and I had no desire to keep anyone out 
of his proper place. That I only wanted 
such people to come and support our 
Sunday Lectures as wanted what we 
had to give. 

There are a thousand other places in 
New York City where one can go on 
Sunday morning and hear a lecture or 
sermon, but there is only one place in 
the whole wide world where one can go 
and hear me. 

He may hear something elsewhere 
which will suit him better, or perhaps 
may not suit him quite so well, but he 
cannot hear me unless he comes to where 
I am, and it is therefore impossible for 


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me to have any competition for there is 
only one me. 

And what I say about myself is also 
true about you and every other “ you ” 
in the world, no matter what the work 
may be in which you are engaged. 

You can make this “ me ” in you as 
valuable or as worthless as you may wish, 
that is for you to determine. 

Should you be engaged in the grocery 
business and there be another store right 
next door to you which handles exactly 
the same goods, made by the same 
manufacturer as are those which you 
handle, the same thing is still true and 
you will only have such competition as 
you fear and create for yourself in your 
own consciousness. 

Your customers may be able to get 
exactly the same kind and brand of goods 


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next door but they cannot get what you 
have to sell unless they come to you , and 
it depends on you and how much of the 
fear consciousness you retain or eliminate 
whether they come to you to buy or 
go next door. 

You can build a consciousness of har¬ 
mony and courage so strong, so power¬ 
ful, and so attractive that people will 
go blocks, yes even miles, out of their 
way to do business with you and buy 
the same goods exactly that they could 
get next door to their own home or place 
of business. (I have people who have 
been coming from 15 to over 50 miles 
every Sunday for several years just 
to hear my lectures. Have students 
come from all parts of the world to take 
my personal course of instruction.) 

Or you can build a consciousness so 


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full of fear and inharmony that it will 
drive people away from you. 

The only competition which man ever 
has in any line of work or business 
is that which he consciously or un¬ 
consciously builds for himself with his 
fear and other negative, destructive 
thoughts. 

The following is an extract from a letter 
written by a man who had lost every 
cent he had in the world and who did 
not know which way to turn less than a 
year before it was written. 

This man came to me in his hour of 
trouble. “ He was a stranger and I 
took him in ” and taught him the Sears 
Philosophy. 

He writes: “ We have the most beau¬ 
tiful and best equipped drug store in Ohio 
and have done a successful business from 


SEARS PHILOSOPHY 


49 


the very beginning. People like to come 
into our store; they like to deal with us 
and go out of their way to tell us so. 
They want this store to be a success. 
I heard one lady say she ‘ just loved to 
come into this store.’ ‘ I come in here 
to get inspiration,’ she said. (Just im¬ 
agine going into the old style drug store 
for inspiration.) I have more friends 
than ever before. Am in better health 
than ever. Have nothing to worry about. 
My mind is clear and active. I sleep 
well, enjoy my food and am beginning 
to grow hair on the top of my head. Can 
you beat it? When I came back from 
New York my friends said, * poor old 
Bill; he went to New York and lost all 
his money.’ But now they say, ‘Gosh! 
Isn’t he lucky! ’ Of course I know and 
you know my case is not a matter of luck, 


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chance or accident, but simply the natu¬ 
ral result of following your teachings as 
best I could. No mystery about it 
whatever.” 


CHAPTER VI 

In addition to all these other “ fears ” 
we have the fear which is instilled in 
man’s consciousness by society’s con¬ 
ventionalities. 

Social conventionalities are simply the 
camouflage with which man covers the 
immoralities of his fear consciousness. 

It is only the <c imitation good ” who 
are in any way affected by or fear the 
conventionalities of life. 

The man who is honest and who would 
not steal under any circumstances is not 
in any way affected by the most stringent 
law against stealing which may be enacted. 

And so with the man who has a really 
moral consciousness , one which is devoid 
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of fear, he too is not afraid of the con¬ 
ventionalities of society for they in no 
way affect him. 

The morality which is founded on fear 
is of but little value for it depends wholly 
on reputation to sustain it. 

But the morality which is founded on 
character is of the greatest value for it 
would far rather lose its reputation than 
to sacrifice its character and the principles 
on which its character is based. 

The man who “ eats of the tree of the 
knowledge of good and evil ” and “ be¬ 
comes wise as gods ” bases his morality 
on reputation , but the man who “ eats 
of the tree of understanding whose fruit 
is ‘ all is good/ ” bases his morality on 
character. 

He knows that “ reputation ” is only 
external and easy to change or get 


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53 


away from and at the most it is left 
behind when he passes on. 

But character , that is something one 
can never get away from. It is internal 
and we carry it with us not only in this 
life but through all the eons of time 
yet to come and in all the other lives we 
may live. 

Character is always with us, asleep 
or awake, dead or alive. We cannot 
hide from it; we cannot run away from 
it; we cannot leave it behind us but must 
take it along with us wherever we go; 
it is with us morning, noon, and night; 
in sickness and health; in sorrow and 
happiness; there is no escaping from it. 

The man with “ understanding ” knows 
that reputation is a camouflage but that 
character is a reality. 

He realizes that the man or woman 


54 HOW TO CONQUER FEAR 

who is only “ good ” because he fears 
to be “ bad ” has a mighty low standard 
of morality; too low in fact to be of any 
real value to him in the growth and 
unfoldment of his soul. 


CHAPTER VII 

What then is the remedy for all of 
these fear conditions? How can man 
ever hope to become the conqueror of 
his fear consciousness? 

The man Jesus said: “ I came not to 
destroy the law but to fulfill it,” and I 
say unto you that I am not here to 
destroy the law nor to destroy any of 
the old customs or order of things. 

I am here to give to that part of man¬ 
kind which is ready for it and which 
wants it, a clearer, bigger, deeper, practi¬ 
cal and more powerful interpretation of 
the law. 

Just as the development of the mental 
consciousness in man did not in any way 
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56 HOW TO CONQUER FEAR 

destroy the laws of the physical plane but 
instead gave to man finer methods with 
which to manipulate these physical laws, 
so does the Sears Philosophy give to man 
still finer methods with which to manipu¬ 
late these same physical laws than does 
either the purely physical or mental 
consciousness. 

In the past, science, philosophy and 
religion have devoted their best efforts 
always to removing the effects of fear or to 
the changing of the objects. This has 
never cured the cause and it never v/ill 
cure it. 

Doctors “ cure ” patients and healers 
produce “ instantaneous healing ” (I have 
had a number of such cases in my own 
work) but as a matter of fact such 
“ cures ” and “ healing,” whether by 
drugs or drugless methods, do not cure 


SEARS PHILOSOPHY 


57 


the cause but only relieve the effects. 
The cause still remains and that is why 
the patient either gets sick again or suf¬ 
fers injury or loss and lack of some 
kind. 

Man must create the consciousness of 
health, of strength, of courage, of har¬ 
mony first before a real cure can ever be 
affected. 

It is like becoming a great musician. 
Before one can ever become a great 
pianist he must first create a musical 
consciousness. 

Few persons are ever willing to devote 
the time and energy necessary to become 
great along any line and that is why we 
have so few really great people in the 
world. 

Not until one does create a musical 
consciousness can he ever expect to 


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render correctly a masterpiece of any 
of the great composers. The degree of 
his ability is dependent wholly upon his 
own application. 

This is a Universal Law and holds true 
with everything man may wish to accom¬ 
plish in a great way, the same as it applies 
to music. 

How then can we create a consciousness 
of harmony which will be so great, so 
strong, and so powerful as to enable us 
to transcend or rise above all the effects 
of our old inharmonious causes of the 
past including the consciousness of fear? 

We do this by using the same common- 
sense methods man uses in creating a 
consciousness of music. 

Do we want to learn to play on the 
piano? 

Then we begin to create a musical 


SEARS PHILOSOPHY 


59 


consciousness in our brain cells and in 
the ends of our fingers by practicing the 
exercises prepared for such purpose. 

As we progress in our work the 44 ex¬ 
ercises” we practice are changed from 
time to time, but always do we have 
some pattern, some exercise, some piece 
of music before us which we are to prac¬ 
tice in order to aid in the development 
of our musical consciousness in both brain 
cells and finger tips. 

So in our development of a conscious¬ 
ness of harmony. 

We take for the 44 exercise ” or the 
“ pattern ” which is always to be before 
us, the affirmation of 44 All is good.” 

We say this thousands of times a day, 
at every opportunity possible. 

We train our human mind to remember 
and begin to affirm just the moment it 


60 HOW TO CONQUER FEAR 

is free, even for a second, from earning 
our daily bread. 

We do this morning, noon and night. 

We let it be the last thing we do before 
going to sleep and the first thing we do 
upon awakening in the morning. 

We remember that “ eternal vigilance 
is the price of liberty,” not only in the 
material world but also in the thought 
world, and that in order to be free from 
the slavery and bondage of our old 
destructive and inharmonious thoughts 
of fear and kindred ones we must be as 
persistent in applying our lesson of 
“ All is good ” as we would be in prac¬ 
ticing our musical exercise on the piano. 


CHAPTER VIII 


Man’s first use of Energy along any 
line is always inharmonious and destruc¬ 
tive in its effects and that is why he fre¬ 
quently finds it so difficult to unlearn 
some of his old thought habits and learn 
new ones. It is also why he so often 
quits when he only “ tries ” in the 
taking hold of something new to learn. 

When we start to do anything with only 
the consciousness of “ trying to do it ” 
we are sure to fail in the majority of 
cases but when we start with the con¬ 
sciousness of keeping at it until we do 
succeed no matter how many times we 
fail in the attempt we are then sure to 
win out. 


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This effect is perfectly natural and 
in full accord with Universal Law for, 
until man has acquired the conscious¬ 
ness, the thought habit, of using Energy 
along any particular line the intelligence 
in the cells of his body are untrained to 
that especial work and naturally will not 
respond at once to his instruction. 

Only such cells of the physical body as 
have been especially instructed along 
any particular line of work or endeavor 
will respond at once to any orders man 
may give. 

The following personal experience will 
perhaps better illustrate just what I 
mean. 

Years ago I taught myself to write 
on the typewriter with the index finger 
of each hand. It was a long, tedious 
and laborious job but the cells of both 


SEARS PHILOSOPHY 


63 


these fingers and the atoms of my brain 
were worked with until they all had the 
“ typewriter consciousness,” and to-day 
I can write on my machine with these two 
index fingers as fast or faster than the 
average typist. 

But let me attempt to use any of 
my other fingers and what results? 
Everything gets all mixed up and the 
type-written page looks more like a 
Chinese laundry ticket than anything 
else. 

It is true that the other three fingers 
and thumb of each hand were right 
beside the index fingers all the time I 
was instructing the latter and heard 
everything I said just the same as did 
the two index fingers, but these other 
fingers and thumbs did not apply the 
lessons taught my index fingers, neither 


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did they do any practicing nor affirming 
and so they failed to develop the “ type¬ 
writer consciousness.’’ 

People are just like my fingers. Some 
who read this book will be like my two 
index fingers were with the typewriter, 
that is, they will apply the lessons taught 
them and keep on applying and practic¬ 
ing until they succeed. 

Others who read it will be like my other 
fingers and thumbs and fail to practice 
and apply these lessons and so will not 
learn them any more than my other 
fingers and thumbs learned to use the 
typewriter. 

Many persons say that could repeating 
“ All is good,” or “ I am health,” or 
“ I am wealth,” or 46 1 am success,” 
“I am courage,” bring them any of 
these things that they would have re- 


SEARS PHILOSOPHY 


63 


ceived them long ago for they had said 
them often enough. 

Such persons are usually like a young 
man who came to me once and said he 
had never been able to get anything out 
of my books. 

In answer to my inquiry he said that 
his mother had sent him several of my 
books and told him to study them for ten 
minutes every night and that he had 
been doing this for several months past 
but could not see that it did him any 
good. 

I asked him what he did with the re¬ 
maining twenty-three hours and fifty 
minutes out of the twenty-four hours that 
he did not use in studying my books. 
Did he apply the lessons which my books 
taught in the living out of any part of 
it or did he continue to live in the same 


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old thought habits he had lived in before 
he obtained my books. 

He was a very honest young man and 
admitted that he promptly forgot all 
about my books and their lessons after 
he had given them the ten minutes time 
each day as he had promised his mother 
to do. 

After taking up and showing him how 
necessary it was to practice and apply 
these lessons just like he would any other 
lesson (that they did not work themselves 
automatically) he left and it was not long 
afterward when I heard from him saying 
that it was wonderful what he was 
accomplishing in the following of my 
instructions. 

Just the simple saying of an affirmation 
will not produce the results affirmed 
unless one has already developed the con- 


SEARS PHILOSOPHY 


67 


sciousness of health, of wealth, of success, 
of courage, any more than the simple 
saying of “ I can play on the piano ” will 
enable one to do so who has not yet 
developed the musical consciousness of 
the pianist. 

But just as the continual practice on 
the piano will in time enable one to 
develop the musical consciousness neces¬ 
sary to enable him to play the master¬ 
pieces of the greatest composers so will 
the continued affirmation of “ All is 
good,” “ I am wealth,” “ I am health,” 
“I am success,” “I am courage,” in 
time develop the consciousness which will 
enable one to obtain these results. % 

How long a time it will take him to do 
this is dependent on each life. 


CHAPTER IX 


The bible says that there are “ times 
and seasons 99 for everything. 

We have had the “ times and seasons ” 
for physical development and mental 
unfoldment with the result that civiliza¬ 
tion as we know it to-day has reached 
its highest stage, but the world is grow¬ 
ing weary of the physical strife and mental 
sand-bagging which has accompanied this 
growth and is now hungrily reaching out 
for something which will allow its soul 
consciousness to find greater expression 
and the “ times and seasons ” for the 
soul’s awakening is now here. 

This development must be open to and 
common for all who wish it. 

There must not and will not be any 


SEARS PHILOSOPHY 


privileged classes except as each soul may 
deny itself the right and privilege of 
this development. 

The Sears Philosophy teaches a safe, 
sane, and common-sense application of 
the Universal Laws to all phases of life, 
and under such application the soul not 
only has freedom of expression but learns 
to make such expression harmonious and 
constructive. 

The individual adjustment of each soul 
to the Universal Laws is a matter which 
each soul has to determine for itself for 
we realize that great truths will always 
be modified by each student’s capacity 
to receive, understand, apply, and rightly 
value them. 

In learning any kind of a lesson a 
teacher is always of assistance but is 
never an absolute necessity. 


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For instance, a student will learn music 
and develop a musical consciousness 
much more rapidly under the tutelage 
of a teacher who has already developed 
such a consciousness himself and also 
an ability to impart his knowledge to 
others than such student could by him¬ 
self, but he can progress alone even 
without any teacher will he only apply 
himself to the work. 

The same is true in the developing 
of a consciousness of harmony, health, 
wealth, success, or anything else. 

With the aid of a teacher who has 
developed a consciousness of these things, 
the student will be able to progress more 
rapidly than by himself, but he too can 
progress even without a teacher will 
he only apply himself to the work as 
did the artist referred to in my book 


BEARS PHILOSOPHY 


71 


on “ How to Attract Success,” page 

121 . 

One affirmation of “ All is good ” (or 
any other affirmation for that matter) 
is like one match in a dark room. One 
match will give out a little light but the 
greater amount of darkness soon over¬ 
whelms the little light of one match. 
But when we turn on the light of a mil¬ 
lion matches and keep it turned on it 
will entirely displace the darkness and 
continue to do so as long as the light is 
turned on. 

Turn off the light and the darkness 
will still be there. It has not been con¬ 
quered, annihilated nor destroyed by the 
light during the time the light was turned 
on. 

By using finer methods in manipulating 
the same physical laws which produced 


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the darkness, we are able to obtain 
the more rapid vibrations of ether called 
“ light 9 5 and so rise above the effects of 
the darkness and remain above these 
effects as long as we continue to live 
in the consciousness of the light vibra¬ 
tions. But the moment we allow the 
vibrations to slow down then the dark¬ 
ness begins to reappear and the light to 
vanish. 

Every Spring the sap in the tree rises 
from its deepest roots and goes out to 
the end of the topmost branch. 

In doing this it does not destroy nor 
annihilate the Law of Gravitation, but 
by using the finer methods of the Law 
of Attraction it rises above the effects of 
the Law of Gravitation or Force. 

This is what the light does for the dark¬ 
ness. 


SEARS PHILOSOPHY 


73 


It is also what the affirmations “ All 
is good,” “ I am wealth,” “ I am health,” 
“ I am success,” “ I am courage,” and 
similar affirmations do for man when he 
persistently and continuously affirms 
them until he creates a consciousness of 
good, wealth, health, success, courage, 
harmony, within him. 

One affirmation of “ All is good,” is 
like one match in the darkness. It gives 
a little harmony but very little for it is 
soon swallowed up by the greater in¬ 
harmony the same as is the light of the 
one match soon swallowed up by the 
greater darkness, but thousands of such 
affirmations said day after day, week 
after week, month after month, and year 
after year, with the same persistency and 
perseverance one would have in learning 
to play on the piano will enable the most 


74 HOW TO CONQUER FEAR 

inharmonious person in the world to 
develop a consciousness of harmony which 
will turn a demon into a god, transmute 
the direst poverty into wealth, the most 
virulent disease into health, and the 
worst failure into success. 

These results come or fail to come 
according to the earnestness of our 
application, for just as many persons 
“play” at learning music, so do many 
“ play ” at learning to create a con¬ 
sciousness of harmony and the con¬ 
quering of fear, and the results are always 
in accord therewith. 

In conclusion, let us learn that the 
first step to take in the mastering of 
a consciousness of fear and in the de¬ 
veloping of a consciousness of courage 
is to know that both fear and courage 
are simply manifestations or expres- 


SEARS PHILOSOPHY 


75 


sions of Energy and are not the Energy 
itself. 

The second step is to know that Energy 
will produce either fear or courage equally 
as well. 

The third step is to know that the only 
power which can determine whether 
Energy shall be used to produce fear or 
courage in your consciousness is your 
own human mind. 

When man learns not to mistake the 
manifestations of Energy for the Energy 
itself he will then see that other great 
truth which goes with it and which is 
that all Energy is good or God . 

That it has been the manifestation of 
Energy which man in the past has 
ignorantly called God and Devil or good 
and evil. 

That when he realizes this wonderful 


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truth of “ All is good or God,” he will 
cease to live in the consciousness of only 
the manifestation of Energy but will 
learn to live in the consciousness of the 
Energy itself, and in this consciousness 
comes that sublime courage in which 
there is never any fear for it knows that 
in truth “ All is good.” 


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CONTENTS: Vol. I. 

•‘How We Create Ourselves,’* teaches ka plain, 
•cientific way kow eack life is constantly creating, destroy¬ 
ing, re-creating and re-deSlroying its body and environment 
with every breatk it breathes; and shows kow one may 
learn to do this consciously and intelligently and so make 
both body and environment to accord with kis desires. 

“The Law of Cause and Effect,** teackes kow 
eack life sets the causes in motion which produces every 
effect it receives. That people and things are instruments 
in the hands of God—the great Universal Law—to work 
out in our lives the effects of causes we have set in motion. 
That each life can determine whether it will be a construc¬ 
tive or deStru<5tive instrument in the lives of others with 
which it contacts. Which do you want to be ? 

“The Resurrection of the Rody,” teaches how 
this may be brought about while we are still living, and ia 
a sane, natural manner, as the result of natural laws 
which seem miraculous because the world has not under¬ 
stood them. The bodies of many persons are so decayed 
and dead that they need to be transmuted into a “temple 
fit for the living God within them.” 

“The Risen Self’* teaches how the body may be 
refined and made more harmonious so that the God-self 
may manifest freely through it, and thus give expression 
to the new self or “The Risen Self.” 

“The Secret of Healing” teackes tke law of health 
and how to relate with it. Health is the natural result of 
relating normally with the laws which produce it, while 
disease is the natural effect of violating these laws. 

“The Unpardonable Sin” is a moSt wonderful, yet 
simple interpretation of this question, and makes it so plain, 
although so new and entirely different from what we 
thought, that we wonder why we have never understood it 
before. This lesson teaches how and when we become 
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*‘Onr Judgment Days’* teaches that each day Is a 
•May of judgment” and that our daily experiences are the 
sentences we pass upon ourselves. It also teaches how to 
change these judgments and obtain what we want. 

“The Law of Abundance’’ teaches that this is the 
natural law of the Universal Life. When we have lack in 
our lives it is because we have separated ourselves in our 
thought world from the abundance of supply, and not 
because there is any lack in the universal supply. This 
lesson shows how to make union with the abundance and 
materialize it for our daily needs. 

“What Creates Environment” is a complete an¬ 
swer to the fallacies of Socialism and teaches a much deeper 
cause. Man creates his own environment and then in turn 
receives the reflex action of its effects. This lesson teaches 
how to create the kind of environment one desires. 

“Death! Then What?” This should be read by 
all who mourn a loved one that has passed on. “Death is 
but the open door to a larger life,” and when we understand 
our relationship to it and to those who have gone before, it 
is much easier to bear. No life should be without the in¬ 
struction this lesson gives. 

“Reincarnation! Why, When, Where?” Rein¬ 
carnation is a Truth which only each life can “prove” for 
itself. To those who want to learn how to develop an un¬ 
derstanding by which one may “prove” this Truth for him¬ 
self, this lesson can be made a Step along the pathway and 
become exceedingly valuable. Reincarnation, together with 
the Law of Cause and Effect, solves problems which have 
been otherwise unsolvable. 

“What is God?” A scientific, philosophical, and 
religious lesson on this moSl wonderful subject; one that 
gives the largeSt interpretation the imagination can conceive 
through the intelligent use of our higher faculties. 

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“The World’s Injustice.” 

“Betraying One’s Confidence.” 

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“A Blessed Privilege.” 

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Concentration Spells Success 

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We all lock the doors and windows of our home to 
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